Director, Finance

Are you a change maker who wants to play a pivotal role in restoring vision for millions of people in low-income settings across India? Would you like to work for an organisation that is a pioneer in social impact practices? We are seeking a highly motivated, dynamic, and self-driven candidate who would like to have a challenging and meaningful career path in finance, accounts, and the social sector. Finance and accounts are key focus areas at our organisation and require a proactive and dynamic approach. S/he will provide expert guidance and timely and accurate support while working with stakeholders. S/he will independently perform complex tasks to support the grant process (pre and post award) and contracts activities. S/he will supervise and participate in the preparation of various budgets, financial statements, and reports. She/he will direct the maintenance of general and subsidiary ledgers, accounts receivables, fund allocation, and operating expenses, establishing system controls for new financial systems and developing procedures to improve existing systems. She/he will closely collaborate with other departments/functions such as programs, resource mobilisation, supply chain, human resources, and information technology. The responsibilities would include team management and building the function as needed, day-to-day local bookkeeping, and maintaining accurate and timely financial records by entering, processing, and reconciling transactions as per established procedures and formats for the functions. S/he will prepare reports and schedules to facilitate budget preparation, tax filing, monthly and annual financial reporting, and successful internal and statutory audits. The incumbent will serve as the primary finance liaison to the institutional partnerships team, resource mobilisation team, and operations teams, managing accounts receivable, accounts payable, ensuring financial compliances for various types of grants. S/he will be directly reporting to the Managing Director and will be based out of Delhi NCR (Noida), India. About You You build organisations. You play a central role in creating the underpinnings for end-user/partner satisfaction and healthy expansion and help drive the financial strategy of the entire organisation. You see the big picture. You use technological solutions to generate real-time insights. You are analytical. You understand budgets and financial statements and quickly notice when line items don’t add up. You may have the title of Director, but you work alongside your team. You roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty when necessary. You work hard and approach each day with humility and a desire to keep learning. About Us We are creating access to eyeglasses for low-income people. Clear vision creates opportunities for increased learning, work, safety, civic participation, and quality of life. As a social organisation, social change motivates us first. Our focus is on advancing our mission objectives - to increase functioning, productivity, and income earning potential for our low-income people by correcting impaired vision with eyeglasses. We are working to transform the systemic dysfunction which has failed to deliver eyeglasses - a 700-year-old technology - to approximately 55 Crore people in India in need of vision correction. We serve low-income people who are more than beneficiaries to us. The people (and the partners) we serve expect high-quality eye-screenings and eyeglasses. To efficiently scale, we must deliver each new unit at less cost. We run our operations on financial metrics and social impact measures. We leverage a range of processes and practices to get the work done. We believe in scaling our impact, not our organisation. We are a lean team of doers. What You’ll Do Financial Reporting and Analysis Prepare and review financial reports, including budget variance analysis and program expenditure reports. Oversee the implementation of financial software, analytical tools, and process improvements to enhance analytics, with speed, accuracy and completeness. Act as a key financial advisor to the leadership team and provide insights that drive data-based decision-making. Analyse financial data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and timely monitoring of progress, performance, financial outlook, and forecasting. Drive program/department/SKU wise analysis and monitoring. Monitor cash flows and fund requirements. Prepare monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial reports for review – internal, external, and Board as per schedule. Grant Management Drive the project budgeting, reporting and review process for every project in collaboration with all stakeholders for the process. Oversee timely filing of FCRA returns, quarterly intimation of foreign contributions, and maintenance of separate